My money is on a Mac Pro because... well because I have several years worth of saving up for a new one. I'm still not convinced to pull the trigger for a new model or opt for a a dual socket Westmere system in the tower chassis. At least the review should flow in that'll swing the pendulum one way or another.

And I'm going to be irked if I wind up getting the tower as I could have purchased it a year ago.

My money is on a Mac Pro because... well because I have several years worth of saving up for a new one.

Same here, except for the saving up part, but my current pro seems to be in death throes at the moment; okay so it's probably just the power supply, but it's not a desperately cheap component to replace for what is still a five year old computer with a heap of other minor physical problems (DVD drive won't open, graphics card fan is noisy as hell, some of the ports stopped working…) so it's probably time for an upgrade.

I'm generally sold on the idea of the new Pro; okay so it'll require me to shift my current drives over to a decent USB drive enclosure, but a Fusion Drive with the internal flash storage ought to be pretty damn fast anyway. Plus I'm assuming the two GPUs are standard on all models, and since I don't particularly need tons of VRAM (though I'd never say no of course) I hopefully don't need to over-spend. I'm also trying to work out what kind of Bitcoin generation the new pro will be able to manage with those two GPUs when I don't need them for something else, I'm thinking maybe I can generate a bit of a subsidy…

I also fully expect Mavericks to be properly announced; as I don't see Apple releasing the new Mac Pro without it.

I'm most interested in a higher resolution mac book air, and a retina ipad mini. I can't see the ipad mini going another 12 months without a higher resolution display, the competing mini tablets are starting to get very cheap with very good displays.

Pricing of the new Mac Pro might be the biggest news of the day. Assuming Apple doesn't shaft us on further details / make this strictly iPad and Mavericks.

I hope that the initial specs Apple released were for a highend BTO model or else we're in for wallet shock. The FirePro W9000 video cards retail for $3400 a piece in the PC space and the new Mac Pro was announced with two. The other pricing thing is that the 12 core Xeon's E5-1660v2 are going for ~$1100 a piece. Going by retail prices (which are higher than OEM pricing) we're looking at least $8000. 6,8 and 10 core models are also possible so that'll be a bit of savings but costs are going to be dwarfed by the video cards. Case, PSU, chipset, Thunderbolt controllers all add up too.

The other downside is that the W9000's should be replaced by faster models within 3 months time. AMD is about to launch a new highend CPU within a week on the consumer side and the workstation variant typically launches several months later.

I would love a $2499 starting price. Even with poor expansion, dual W9000 cards is a steal at that price.

I hate myself for looking forward to this. Been using a work iPad 2 and now I'm changing jobs I'm gonna miss not having it. I've been really looking forward to some Win8.1 tablets on the new Atoms, but a new iPad seems like a safer bet right now. Funny because I can do everything I want on my Windows Phone and more besides on a Wintel tablet, but ecosystem is the killer and somehow that matters more on a tablet to me.

Pricing of the new Mac Pro might be the biggest news of the day. Assuming Apple doesn't shaft us on further details / make this strictly iPad and Mavericks.

I hope that the initial specs Apple released were for a highend BTO model or else we're in for wallet shock. The FirePro W9000 video cards retail for $3400 a piece in the PC space and the new Mac Pro was announced with two. The other pricing thing is that the 12 core Xeon's E5-1660v2 are going for ~$1100 a piece. Going by retail prices (which are higher than OEM pricing) we're looking at least $8000.

"Oh... one more thing." I'm hoping for a full-on game-changing Apple Smart TV that will destroy cable and satellite TV as we know them.

I'm with you on that.

TVs are in a very similar situation as phones were pre-iPhone or MP3 players were pre-iPod. They suck to interact with and they're confusingly named* and released. They're underpowered. The flow of content is entangled with a ton of other business deals (content providers, cable companies, etc).

That said, an full-size TV (or really, any surprises) won't get announced here: it seems that post-Jobs, Apple's leak prevention unit been replaced with an address book of media contacts, so we would've heard about it by now: bulk orders of large display panels, image processing chips, deals with content providers, and product renderings all would've been in the rumour mill by now.

*Looking at Best Buy's website, the first 5 TV model names I see are:47LN5400UN55FH6030FXZA KDL50R450A UN50EH6000FXZA UN46F6300AFXZA

It'd be so nice if you could easily tell "ok, this is the 2013 Sony model", rather than not easily knowing which ones have which tech, which are better/worse.

So who exactly is applauding at these events? I understand applause at developer conference or public events, but isn't this almost exclusively a press event? Is it some light polite applause or are people actually exited?

So the MacBook Pro's are being left to "rot", or are they discontinuing them in favor of the Retina/Air?

I get it, but the MacBook Pro is the only thing keeping me tied to Apple now. I know I'm in a small boat, but being able to toss in my own SSD and another HDD (via a cheap $15 drive caddy to sit in the optical drive bay) is huge for me.

I hope it's just a typical Apple... delay, and that they still keep them around, because they are currently the only Macs you can upgrade yourself (even being a tech, the old iMacs were infinitely easier than the current ones with a SKU for each peice of VHB tape holding the screen on).

I hope that the initial specs Apple released were for a highend BTO model or else we're in for wallet shock. The FirePro W9000 video cards retail for $3400 a piece in the PC space and the new Mac Pro was announced with two. The other pricing thing is that the 12 core Xeon's E5-1660v2 are going for ~$1100 a piece. Going by retail prices (which are higher than OEM pricing) we're looking at least $8000.

Well it looks like I'm not too far off. $3000 base price isn't too bad though I'll have to read up on what is in the base specs. What stands out initially is the 12 GB of RAM. There is a chance that this runs in a three channel mode or even uses an EN processor that only supports three channels max.

The FirePro cards have a new naming scheme so I'll have to see what chips are used for what model and go from there.

I still suspect that the grand daddy 12 core, dual D700 model is going to be well over $8000.